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Installed Chrome this morning. I like it a lot. Fast. Exceptionally well thought out. Very nice new unobtrusive features. I envy the programmers that so deserve to be proud of it.

They’ve got some issues to hammer out with it. Little things on some of the pages I go to. But it’s beautiful. One little example: When I go to post.php in WordPress, Chrome starts scrolled to the bottom of the page. Sometimes all of the Chrome browsers hang for a few seconds at a time.

What should be done with the soon to be empty radio spectrum, freed from analog television transmissions?

Dearest members of the FCC,

I strongly encourage you to allot a large portion of the soon to be freed up analog television white space to unlicensed data services.

You may have noticed how incredibly beneficial and popular the unlicensed 2.4 gigahertz spectrum has been for our society. Please let that kind of progress continue. There are many more radio services, some of which haven’t even been conceived of yet, just waiting to become feasible.

I am sure that you have received many more letters telling you about the myriad possible uses for this spectrum. Please read them.

I am sure that several companies are whispering in your collective ear, giving you all manner of reasons why the spectrum shouldn’t be unlicensed. Planting fear, uncertainty and doubt, “FUD” is a time honored tactic to subvert the will of public policy makers. Please do not fall prey to this tactic.

Do what is best for the American people.

Thank you,
Lee Sonko

FreeTheAirwaves.com talks more about this issue.

I am on the Do Not Call Registry. I’m getting more and more telemarketer calls. It’s now something like 5 per week.

I just filed the following Do Not Call Registry complaint:

I received an unsolicited telemarketing call at 9-3-08 11:42 am from a woman identifying herself as being from “The Premiere Health Organization” or “Premier Health Care” or “Health Enrollment Center”.

The call started with a recording that asked me to press “1” for an operator. They are ostensibly selling PPO health insurance for $199/month + $125 enrollment fee. They claim to be using Ace Insurance (http://www.aceusa.com) as an underwriter and the Beech Street network of Doctors (http://www.beechstreet.com/)

I spoke with a woman who identified herself as “Jordan” and gave a callback number of 800-219-6643 x407. When I called the number, an answering system identified itself as “Heath Enrollment Center”.

To keep the call going for 11 minutes, 56 seconds, I gave her (almost) correct identifying information for myself.

I then filed a Do Not Call Registry Complaint.